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Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard · 1887

Fantasy · Classics

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Hunter Allan Quatermain, from King Solomon's Mines, leads a new expedition into unmapped Africa with Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good. They find a hidden land of warring peoples at the end of an underground river.

Content note: Written in 1887, this adventure carries the racial and colonial attitudes of its time, including stereotyped portrayals of African peoples. It has battle scenes and violence.

29 chapters

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Lament, ye birds, the battle’s fallen star,

But you, sweet nightingales, forbear to sing.

Ye vultures only, floating from afar,

Shriek o’er the sepulchre on shadowy wing

Of him that fed you full with spoils of war

While through the smitten shields his axe would ring.

A. Lang

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